This award is in recognition of "alumni and faculty members who have made professional, technical, educational, or service contributions that bring distinction to themselves, the department, and the university."Nov 2016

SyNRG party at Turkey Run State Park

Canoe trips were great fun... one canoe flipped but we all survived!May 2016

Romit Roy Choudhury was recently awarded the 2015 ACM SIGMOBILE RockStar Award in recognition of "significant contributions, early in his career, to mobile sensing and wireless networking, with an emphasis on location and cross-layer protocols".May 2015

Google sponsors SyNRG

Recent work has shown that inaudible signals (at ultrasound frequencies) can be designed to become audible to microphones at very short distances. We develop such an attack that achieves 25 feet range, and then develop a defense against this class of voice attacks that exploit
non-linearity.
(Led by Nirupam)Dec 2017

MUTE exploits the velocity gap between RF and sound to improve active noise cancellation, while
Agile-Link finds the best mmWave beam alignment without scanning the space.
(Led by Sheng and Haitham)May 2018

BackDoor shows high-frequency ultrasonic sounds can be designed to be recordable by unmodified smartphone microphones while remaining inaudible to humans, leading to applications including inaudible acoustic-jammer and in-air acoustic communication for IoT devices.
(Led by Nirupam)June 2017

Hassanieh developed highly efficient algorithms for computing the Sparse Fourier Transform, and demonstrated their applicability in many domains including networks, graphics, medical imaging and biochemistry.May 2017

We explore the possibility of bringing IoT to sports analytics, particularly to the game of Cricket. We
develop solutions to track a ball’s 3D trajectory and spin with inexpensive sensors and radios embedded in the ball.
(Led by Mahanth)Dec 2016

Imagine a user typing on a laptop keyboard while wearing a smart watch. This paper asks whether motion sensors from the
watch can leak information about what the user is typing. See video here.
(Led by He)Jun 2015

BounceNet presents a many-to-many millimeter wave beam alignment protocol that can exploit dense spatial reuse to allow many links to operate in parallel and scale the wireless throughput with the number of clients. (Led by Suraj)Nov 2018

Insight develops techniques using which humans can be visually recognized. Complementary
to face recognition, Insight exploits the intuition that motion patterns and clothing colors may pose as a human fingerprint, adequate to discriminate
one individual from others.
(Led by He)Feb 2015